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Matthew Paterson

Professor, Department of Politics and Research Director, Sustainable Consumption Institute
University of Lethbridge
Matthew Paterson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Manchester and Research Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute. His research focuses on the political economy of global environmental change. His publications include Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), Automobile Politics (2007), Climate Capitalism: global warming and the transformation of the global economy (with Peter Newell, 2010), and Transnational Climate Change Governance (with HarrietBulkeley and 8 others, Cambridge University Press 2014). He is currently focused on the political economy and cultural politics of climatechange, and starting to work on the networked character of global climate governance.